A West Boca Raton man sold about $85,000 worth of his mother’s dolls and figurines without her permission for the past three months, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Since April, Kenneth Gopen, 43, said he’s periodically taken Zwergnase and Himstedt dolls, as well as Lladro and Nao porcelain figurines, from his mother’s home and sold them. Though the report does not indicate how much money he received for the collectibles, his mother told investigators she estimated the value of the stolen items were about $50,000 for the dolls and $35,000 for the figurines.

On eBay, the dolls are being sold anywhere from $100 to more than $9,000.

When the employees at the pawn shop asked how the dolls came into his possession, Gopen, who lives with his 67-year-old mother just south of Clint Moore Road and west of Lyons Road, told the pawn shop he inherited them from his mother who recently died, according to the report.

But it was Gopen’s mother who called authorities Saturday to report her dolls were stolen.

She said she asked her son to move the dolls into the attic because she was clearing out a room in her home. The woman told investigators her son admitted to pawning at least three of the dolls and dozens of the Lladro figurines, according to the report.

Gopen is being held on $3,000 bail on grand theft charges at the Palm Beach County Jail. In 2007, he was arrested on dozens of counts of child abuse but it was later downfiled to contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The state did not go forward with the case, according to county records.